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Hey Rose, why is it you always seem to say exactly what I mean?
The "emotional cementing" is exactly what I am looking for. In my afamily I have 3 siblings. We are anything but close. In fact, no one has seen or talked to my sister in about 6 years. She was reunited with her bfamily about 7 years ago, and in addition to other family issues she wants nothing to do with us. This may not come out right, but even though I am the youngest in my afamily, I have always been the "strong" one, the "good" one. I think because of that I have never been able to go to them with any type of problem or emotional crisis. I wouldn't ever want them to think there was something that I couldn't handle (I know it sounds weird, because obvioulsy we all have problems). I guess I needed to be the child that would never cause my aparents any additional grief being that the other 3 overflowed the pot in that area. I guess I am trying to say that growing up there was never an "emotional cementing" and it has been something I always dreamed of having with my bfamily.
In my reunion, I have 4 bbrothers. Ok, number one, they are all men and we know that typically men don't really share feelings, number two, they are as Heartbeat said,"laidback and low intensity" people. I was reading into that as they really aren't interested, but now I know that's not true. This all takes time! Thanks Rose for always saying the right thing!
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